{"id":15705,"date":"2022-05-29T21:58:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T20:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=15705"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:31:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:31:39","slug":"daily_2679_-_the_cardigan_fits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2022\/05\/29\/daily_2679_-_the_cardigan_fits\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2679 &#8211; the cardigan fits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2679_cardigan_selfie.jpg\" class=\"x6y6\" \/><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve finally reached the sleeve divide, which means that I can try the cardigan on for real, rather than just draping it over my shoulders. And I&#8217;m super pleased to say that it fits pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>This, in turn, means that I can finally cut all the annoying yarns across the chest!<\/p>\n<p>The colour fade from yellow to orange meant a lot of switching between colours, and quite often the live end of the yarn I needed was on the other side of the knitted fabric. I considered just knitting from wherever the yarn was &#8211; purling if the yarn was on that side of the fabric, even though the pattern called for a knit row &#8211; but was afraid that that would make it too hard to keep track of all the increases. So I just let the yarn jump the gap to where I needed it. As long as I was unsure about the fit, I didn&#8217;t dare cut the yarn (wouldn&#8217;t want to end up with lots of small pieces if I had to unravel it all) so I had all these fiddly yarns going across the chest, from one edge to the other. Now I&#8217;m going to chop them all, which is going to make things a lot easier!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2679_cardigan_yarn.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally reached the sleeve divide, which means that I can try the cardigan on for real, rather than just draping it over my shoulders. And I&#8217;m super pleased to say that it fits pretty well. This, in turn, means that I can finally cut all the annoying yarns across the chest! The colour fade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,784,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-knitting","category-observing_the_self"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15705"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15712,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15705\/revisions\/15712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}